Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork
I’m covered in notes, paper scraps, jottings, so acute the letters appear about to leap off the paper’s edge. I can say things of use—I’m sometimes good for that—elsewhere is where I fall. Like a…
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Christopher Citro
Christopher Citro is the author of two full-length poetry books: If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015), as well as the collaboratively written poetry chapbooks: I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest (Ghost City Press, 2025) and The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering (Aureole Press, 2025). His awards include a Pushcart Prize for poetry, and his poems appear in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and West Branch. His creative nonfiction appears in American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Southeast Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, and Colorado Review. Christopher is an editorial assistant for Seneca Review and lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.